Mark Rosenfelder

"A good skeptical mind doesn't waste itself on drugs or ideology, and prefers to break the rules in our minds, in the form of humor, rather than in real life."

"Rejecting Chomsky is almost a full time job. He keeps changing his mind, so you have to study quite a lot of Chomsky before you know all the stuff you can reject."

"It’s a little too early to play curmudgeon and complain that the kids today don’t have the patience to read long web pages."

"A nation needs clear rules on what happens in the case of a disputed succession. Surely there’s a Queen’s Bedchamber Mace or someone who knows."

"Idleness, theft, and viciousness dishonor your mother who in pain bore you."

"What harms no other is not sin."

"If he met resistance he threw men at it; if the obstacle was insurmountable he went around it; if the odds were hopeless he trusted in Jippir"

"Words are devils, which may lead a man to pick up a sword; but they can never teach him to use it."